![]() ![]() Unable either to renounce conventional, bourgeois life or to embrace it, Harry has been driven to the brink of suicide. He is disgusted by the sensuality, mindless optimism, and productivity of the bourgeoisie, but he is envious too. He thinks of himself as a “Steppenwolf,” a wolf of the Steppes, wandering alone through a hostile landscape. He is lonely, anxious, and unable to feel at home in the world. Harry moves into a lodging house in an unnamed town. ![]() ![]() Hesse’s contemporaries were outraged by the novel’s depiction of sex and drug use, but it has since come to be recognized as a major work of twentieth-century German fiction. It presents itself as a manuscript written by Harry Haller, a lonely and suicidal middle-aged man who stumbles upon a “magic theater,” in which he has a series of surreal but revitalizing experiences. Steppenwolf (German: Der Steppenwolf) is a 1927 novel by the German writer Hermann Hesse, first translated into English in 1929. ![]()
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